Hamlet Strains & Characters & Criticism

Throughout the whole play, you are to keep a notebook (see Reader's Notebook Rubric) on two characters and one "strand" which runs through Hamlet.

Hamlet Strains 2008

• eye / I
• Fortune & Fate
• words words words
• Water & Liquid
• prison
• “strumpetness”
• Ghosts
• Light
• Dark
• Flora
• Fauna
• Dreams

Major Characters:

• Hamlet
• Ophelia

Other Characters:

• Gertrude
• Claudius
• Horatio
• Polonius
• Laertes
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstren

By the end of the month, you must make a post documenting which strand you are investigating and which two characters you are focusing on and why (very brief). This is a very easy homework grade.

2 non-traditional Thangka Paintings by Ryan Gallagher

Buddha with Tigse (click for detail)

Maitreya in a Thought Bubble (click for detail)

Plum Plum Pickers Period 2

Due: You need to post your essay by Monday, January 28th @2:30 p.m.
Scoring Guide: Open Response Rubric 100 points (Major Essays & Open Responses)

You must turn in all notes on "Plum Plum Pickers" by Raymond Barrio in class on Monday.
Scoring Guide: Reader's Notebook Rubric 40 points (Homework, Notes, Etc)

Before you Submit:

• Your Essay Needs a Title.
• This should be at least 3 pages, typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman.
• Please leave spaces between paragraphs for formatting.
  

Reminder to read the handout on passage explications and go through this process.

A passage explication is an essay that takes apart the pieces of a prose passage to demonstrate how it creates meaning – its main question can be reduced to the simple idea of “What does the passage mean? What is its purpose? How does it create that meaning and achieve its purpose? How does it fit in with the rest of the text (if available)?”

Period 2 Post here. Period 2 Post here. Period 2 Post here.

Plum Plum Pickers Period 1

Due: You need to post your essay by Monday, January 28th @2:30 p.m.
Scoring Guide: Open Response Rubric 100 points (Major Essays & Open Responses)

You must turn in all notes on "Plum Plum Pickers" by Raymond Barrio in class on Monday.
Scoring Guide: Reader's Notebook Rubric 40 points (Homework, Notes, Etc)

Before you Submit:

• Your Essay Needs a Title.
• This should be at least 3 pages, typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman.
• Please leave spaces between paragraphs for formatting.

Reminder to read the handout on passage explications and go through this process.

A passage explication is an essay that takes apart the pieces of a prose passage to demonstrate how it creates meaning – its main question can be reduced to the simple idea of “What does the passage mean? What is its purpose? How does it create that meaning and achieve its purpose? How does it fit in with the rest of the text (if available)?”

Period 1 Post here. Period 1 Post here. Period 1 Post here.

Plum Plum Pickers Period 7

Due: You need to post your essay by Monday, January 28th @2:30 p.m.

Scoring Guide: Open Response Rubric 100 points (Major Essays & Open Responses)

You must turn in all notes on "Plum Plum Pickers" by Raymond Barrio in class on Monday.

Scoring Guide: Reader's Notebook Rubric 40 points (Homework, Notes, Etc)

Before you Submit:

• Your Essay Needs a Title.
• This should be at least 3 pages, typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman.
• Please leave spaces between paragraphs for formatting.

Reminder to read the handout on passage explications and go through this process.

A passage explication is an essay that takes apart the pieces of a prose passage to demonstrate how it creates meaning – its main question can be reduced to the simple idea of “What does the passage mean? What is its purpose? How does it create that meaning and achieve its purpose? How does it fit in with the rest of the text (if available)?”

Period 7 Post here. Period 7 Post here. Period 7 Post here.

Movie Review (Option 2)

A review is a piece of writing that offers an opinion about the value of a work. Even though it is opinionated, there is still no room for the first person in this essay. Before you turn it in, make sure you edit.

As I mentioned in class, you will review 2 out of the 3 specific moments in the movie that relate to your journal entries, not the whole movie. You are critiquing two specific moments in the movie based on your intimate knowledge of your book. You will absolutely need evidence from the book.

The Process:

• Search the Internet for a review of the movie you are writing on. It is best to try and find one that is 750-1000 words long, since that's how long your review should be.
• Copy & Paste into a word document and make it fit over two pages. Use the format of the page so it looks like a review. Feel free to play around with the format and font size.
• When you hand in the review, you will obviously replace the text with your own and make sure your name is on it.

Image from the work of Roy Lichtenstein

Original Thesis from Passage Explications (Option 1)

If you choose not to do the movie review, you can write a traditional paper, just like the one we just completed for Camus. Here are the guidelines:

For this Essay on your book, you need to combine two passage explications to create an original thesis. Your paper should be about 2 out of the three passages you completed journals on.

• This should be 4-6 pages, typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman.
• If you post on the blog, leave spaces between paragraphs for formatting.

Reminder to read the handout on passage explications and go through this process.

A passage explication is an essay that takes apart the pieces of a prose passage to demonstrate how it creates meaning – its main question can be reduced to the simple idea of “What does the passage mean? What is its purpose? How does it create that meaning and achieve its purpose? How does it fit in with the rest of the text (if available)?

Image from the work of Roy Lichtenstein

Literature Circle Dialectical Journal Topics

are due Tuesday, January 9th

They are to be handed in with your paper (see above).

You need entries on specific passages from the book (1-3 pages) on the following topics:

• A character analysis
• The Climax
• The Resolution

I would like you to employ the double sided notebook strategy, but I would like you to follow through the process on the PASSAGE EXPLICATION handout. Hopefully, this will add depth to your entries and make them useful.

Image from the work of Roy Lichtenstein